3977: Lehrerfield

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Lehrerfield

Made by: Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

Explanation

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Contrary to what the author's notes state, not every "mistake" in the transcription appears to have been done from memory; the lines corresponding to an instance of "smidge" appear to have fallen victim to mojibake errors in a later site recoding effort as opposed to being a mistake made by the author.

The author writes:

I have a sneaking suspicion that the Venn diagram for "regular SRoMG readers" and "fans of the works of Tom Lehrer" features some heavy overlap. If there are any mistakes in the transcription, it's because I did it from memory. Garfield is, of course, a proud bird-murderer, so it seemed an appropriate choice.

Original strips: 1978-06-19, 1978-06-23, 1978-06-29, 1978-09-23, 1978-09-26, 1978-11-01, 1979-04-03, 1979-04-04, 1979-04-13, 1979-04-19, 1979-04-29, 1979-05-19, 1980-03-17, 1980-09-07, 1980-09-25, 1981-01-09, 1981-02-15, 1982-05-11, 1983-03-19, 1984-11-20, 1986-06-24, 1987-03-31, 1988-11-22, 1990-08-28, 1992-03-20, 1992-04-02, 1992-10-08, 1993-11-28, 1995-07-24, 1997-03-29, 1998-11-08, 2000-06-18, 2000-12-25, 2001-01-30, 2001-01-31, 2001-03-30, 2001-04-29, 2001-05-21, 2001-06-02, 2001-10-14, 2002-08-06, 2003-04-15, 2003-08-15, 2003-08-26, 2003-10-10, 2004-05-01, 2004-06-20, 2004-12-07, 2005-11-13, 2006-05-30, 2006-10-22, 2006-11-23, 2006-12-27, 2008-03-12, 2009-07-30, 2011-04-15, 2011-10-06, 2011-11-10, 2012-07-20, 2012-12-21, 2013-02-27, 2013-04-25, 2014-02-10, 2015-01-31, 2015-02-08, 2019-03-14, 2019-06-04, 2020-03-27.

Transcript

Garfield: Spring is here...
Garfield: Spring is here
Garfield: Life is
Spider SFX: skittles and
Garfield: life is
Jon: beer...
Garfield: I think the loveliest time of the year
Garfield: is the spring.
Jon: I do
Garfield: Don't you?
Irma:
Jon: Of course you do!
Garfield: But there's one thing that
Garfield: makes spring
Garfield: complete for me
Garfield: ...and makes every
Jon: Sunday a
Garfield: treat for me
Garfield: All the world
Garfield: sings
Garfield: in tune
Garfield: on a spring
Garfield: afternoon
Garfield: when we're
Jon: poisoning
Garfield:
Garfield: pigeons
Jon:
Garfield: in the park
Garfield: Every
Jon: Sunday
Jon: you'll
Garfield:see
Garfield: my sweetheart
Jon: and me as
Garfield: we're
Jon: poisoning
Garfield:
Garfield: pigeons
Jon:
Garfield: in the park
Jon: When they see
Garfield: us coming
Spider: the birdies
Garfield all try and hide
Jon: But they'll
Jon: still go for
Garfield: peanuts
Garfield:When coated with
Garfield: cyanide
Flower: The sun's shining
Garfield: bright
Garfield: Everything seems
Garfield: alright!
Garfield: when we're
Jon: poisoning
Garfield:
Garfield: pigeons
Jon:
Garfield: in the park
Text: We've gained notoriety and caused much anxiety in the Audubon Society with our games. They call it impiety and lack of propriety and quite a variety of unpleasant names. But it's not against any religion to want to dispose of a pigeon
Jon: So if Sunday is free
Jon {offscreen}: Why don't you come
Garfield: with me! And we'll
Jon: poison the
Garfield:
Garfield: pigeons
Jon: Garfield:
in the park
Jon: And maybe we'll
Garfield:
Garfield: do in a squirrel
Odie:
Jon: or two
Garfield: while we're
Jon: poisoning
Garfield:
Garfield: pigeons
Jon:
Garfield: in the park
Garfield: We'll murder them all
Garfield: amid
Garfield: laughter
Jon: and
Garfield: merr
Jon {offscreen}: iment...
Garfield: except for the
Garfield: few we take
Jon: home to
Irma: experiment
Jon: My pulse
Garfield: will be quick
Garfield: enin'
Jon: with each
Irma:
Garfield: *drop of*
Sign: stry
TV: chni
Garfield: ne
Garfield: we feed to a
Garfield: pigeon
Garfield: It just takes a
Jon’s left ear: smi
Garfield’s right ear: dge
Garfield: on.
Jon: to poison a
Garfield:
Garfield: pigeon
Jon:
Garfield: in the park

Trivia

This strip's transcript was hit by mojibake errors in a later site recoding effort; the original transcript unaffected by mojibake is currently lost to the public due to this.